The Industrial Revolution

  • The Industrial Revolution: A History in Documents
    By Laura Levine Frader

    Uses contemporary documents to explore the Industrial Revolution.

  • The Industrial Revolution: A Compendium
    By Leslie A. Clarkson

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  • The Industrial Revolution: a Very Short Introduction
    By Robert C. Allen

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  • The Industrial Revolution: History, Documents, and Key Questions
    By Jeff Horn

    Destitute English parents sent their children up to the age of 21 out to work for the parish in exchange for financial support. A parent could also apprentice their child for seven years to a master or entrepreneur.

  • The Industrial Revolution
    By Pat Hudson

    ... industrial revolution In 1944 Eric Williams's book Capitalism and Slavery broke new ground in sustaining, an analysis of the use of slave labour in terms of its profitability and in attributing to the slave system and slave trade a ...

  • The Industrial Revolution
    By Nicholas Brasch

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  • The Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic Interpretation
    By Douglas Fisher

    Cole, W.A. (1973) “Eighteenth-Century Economic Growth Revisited', Explorations in Economic History (Sum.). Cole, W.A. (1981) 'Factors in Demand, 1700–80°, in R. Floud and D.N. McCloskey (eds), The Economic History of England Since 1700 ...

  • The Industrial Revolution: Key Themes and Documents
    By James S. Olson, Shannon L. Kenny

    Bryan, William Jennings | The debate quickly assumed huge political proportions. Advocates of a single gold standard rallied to the Republican Party, which enjoyed considerable support within the business and banking communities.

  • The Industrial Revolution
    By Kevin Hillstrom

    James A. Ward, Railroads and the Character of America, 1820–1887. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986, p. 14. 30. Frederick Merk, History of the Westward Movement. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, p. 202. 31.

  • The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade
    By William J. Ashworth

    Baptist, Edward E., Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of Modern American Capitalism (New York 2014). Barker, T. C., R. Dickinson and D. W. F. Hardie, 'The origins of the synthetic alkali industry in Britain'.

  • The Industrial Revolution: A Macroeconomic Interpretation
    By Douglas Fisher

    The major problem with this view is that this puts a lot of strain on velocity (a number often thought to be tied to payments habits), which must accelerate and decelerate with the rate of inflation (not the price level) for this to be ...

  • The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
    By Robert C. Allen

    625–58. Jane Humphries, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution, Cambridge, 2010. Robert W. Fogel, The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700– 2100, Cambridge, 2004. Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, ...

  • The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
    By Robert C. Allen

    ... Fernández-Armesto CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore CONTEMPORARY ART Julian Stallabrass CONTEMPORARY FICTION Robert Eaglestone CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich CORAL REEFS Charles ...

  • The Industrial Revolution: Key Themes and Documents
    By James S. Olson, Shannon L. Kenny

    "For advanced high school and beginning undergraduate readership... will support Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History and Common Core.

  • THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: INVESTIGATE HOW SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHANGED THE WORLD with 25 PROJECTS
    By Carla Mooney

    Before the Industrial Revolution it was not possible to produce enough of the same item to have a brand, but in 100 years the world changed from make-your-own everything to a society of manufactured goods.

  • The Industrial Revolution: The State, Knowledge and Global Trade
    By William J. Ashworth

    The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in...

  • The Industrial Revolution
    By Therese Harasymiw

    2. Putnam's Monthly, “Statistics and Speculations Concerning the Pacific Railroad,” September 1853, p. 271. 3. ... Quoted in David M. Kennedy and Thomas Bailey, The American Spirit: U.S. History as Seen by Contemporaries, vol. II ...

  • The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of Modern America
    By Emily Mahoney

    During the Industrial Revolution, millions of Americans moved from farms to cities in search of work in new factories.

  • The Industrial Revolution
    By Melissa McDaniel

    Examines the technological developments that brought about the great economic and social changes that came to be called the Industrial Revolution.

  • The Industrial Revolution: The Birth of Modern America
    By Emily Mahoney

    Horrible Jobs of the Industrial Revolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford Raintree, 2016. Despite improvements to many aspects of life, the Industrial Revolution also introduced negative changes, including the jobs detailed by this book.